A shame this came out too late to be added to XKCD's "Map Projections" comic. I'd call it the "Manhattan Uzbekistan Projection."
The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth
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#12I showed this yesterday at the NYC meetup Hack&Tell and it seems to have blown up since then! Thanks for the post. My favorite part is that the avenues converge at "Manhattan's North Pole" aka Kazakhstan.
Your presentation was great, nice job.
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#13Salt Lake City/valley has a better grid system, just saying. I dearly miss it.
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#14The naming is a little off, isn't it? South of Houston all bets for street numbers are off, so I'm fine with making up South Xth street, but you should maintain the consistency the grid currently has.
You've lost the East/West distinction between the streets, so the West streets are just Xth Street, instead of West Xth Street like they should be. Worse, the avenues East of 1st should be named alphabetically, not as E Xth Ave. For consistency, I'd increment them as Ave A, Ave B, Ave C ... Ave Y, Ave Z, Ave AA, ... You've turned Alphabet City into just the East Avenues. Sacrilege.
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#15These things are always only sorta tongue-in-cheek.
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/steinberg-new...
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#16This just goes to show that 1st and 1st really is the center of the universe
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#17All roads lead to Uzbekistan. I think this would be a great way to see differences in map projections.
Uxbekistan and—in the South Pacific—R'Iyeh, fictional city in Lovecraft where Cthulhu is held prisoner.
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#18The naming is a little off, isn't it? South of Houston all bets for street numbers are off, so I'm fine with making up South Xth street, but you should maintain the consistency the grid currently has. You've lost the East/West distinction between the streets, so the West streets are just Xth Street, instead of West Xth Street like they should be. Worse, the avenues East of 1st should be named alphabetically, not as E…
I considered doing that, but I thought Ave AAA might just confuse people, especially people who don't know NYC. And I kind of like that I'm squashing all the nuances with this simple cruel grid :P
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#19Wow, it lines up almost perfectly with Montreal's rather askew grid, what a coincidence.
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#20A shame this came out too late to be added to XKCD's "Map Projections" comic. I'd call it the "Manhattan Uzbekistan Projection."
If I understand map projections correctly, isn't this just whatever projection google maps uses (Mercator) with an overlay?
I probably don't really.